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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1963
Page
6
A garbled OCR fragment lists scattered topics including auto, travel, building, industry, and various personal names. It mentions places like Wisconsin and references to occupations, sports, and real estate terms, but lacks a coherent news event or narrative.
Commissioners Court of Terry County Texas approved precinct adjustments on August 26 1965. Precincts 2234 42 and 14 were altered and 4 116 and 1 were created while 67 84 and other lines remained unchanged. Voting Precinct 1 centers on the Southeastern corner of the County Courthouse area with routes described in detail. Precinct 45 moves to Veterans of Foreign Wars New Hall with boundary lines described along county lines highways and field blocks to the Gaines County line. Precinct 12 known as Box 12 is described in the commission record.
The document outlines voting precinct boundaries and polling places in Brownfield and Terry County Texas. It details Precincts 1 2 3 4 13 14 16 17 with start points along county lines streets rails and roads and notes specific poll sites such as party house county courthouse Jessie G Kandal School Sheriff Posse House and Hester Implement Company.
Perry Bear of the Brownfield Lions Club presented a program on federal tax spending and its impact on taxpayers. President Billie Moore announced a new member Ross Ziehr and a guest J D McPhaul, noting October as New Member Month. Woody Swaringen reported $400 from light bulb sales to benefit the Kerrville crippled children’s camp. Paul Farrar offered the invocation before the meeting adjourned.
Damage described as minimal after two recent fire calls. One at Ervin Auto Service, 102 N 7th, at 2:30 a.m. Monday. the other a grass fire near Brownfield Country Club Saturday evening.
The sentence notes that both veal and pork chops make good braised dishes when cooked in cream of mushroom soup.
Terry County volunteers push a community fundraiser listing requests from West Texas Boy's Ranch 3560 for 40 percent of local boys' camp costs and 1200 for polio aid. Other appeals include 2510 for Girl Scouts 750 for Crippled Children and Adults 600 for Goodfellows 300 for USO 1500 for Girlstown Texas 250 for Gonzales Warm Springs 500 for VOA Maternity Home and more. The advanced gifts division has raised 11292 with drives continuing through November 15 as Langston entertained guests at the kickoff event.
Members of the Agricultural Conservation Program met to discuss county needs and develop the 1964 ACP County Handbook and practice specifications. Three new practices include permanent vegetative cover, permanent soil waterways, and diversion terraces. ASCS staff offer planning help. funds remain for bar and winter cover crops. cotton bars must stay until March 15, 1964 to qualify for payment.
The passage notes eagles favor shore habitats where fish are abundant, highlighting their feeding behavior and coastal or lakeside living preferences.
Dr H W Mellroy Brownfield chiropractor attended a research seminar at the Hotel Texas Fort Worth. The Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation hosted the event reviewing a survey of quarter million chiropractic cases from multiple countries and highlighting studies on whiplash headaches and low back conditions.
Break ins and thefts dominate recent days with arrests for car theft and fraudulent checks. Pleas entered on drunkenness and forgery charges. fines totaling several hundred dollars. Police investigate a 1956 Ford theft, vandalism, runaways, and two men charged with illegal entry. Minor accidents reported and an injury-free collision. Frank Richards notes 59 registered Aberdeen Angus breeders joining in the past month.
County Agent Jim Foy notes defoliants and desiccants can speed machine harvesting but timing is critical. Mature cotton benefits from harvest aids before frost, while early use on immature bolls reduces yield and quality. Aim for about 80 open bolls before applying harvest aids to avoid lint loss, microvariation, and seed oil issues.
Brownfield Junior High School Parent-Teacher Association will meet at 7 30 p m Oct 22 in the cafeteria. Jim Cherry principal and Deal Miller guidance director will lead a discussion on Brownfield Schools course offerings with group discussions to follow. All junior high parents urged to attend.
Ben Cabrera of Brownfield has been elected to membership in the American Angus Association at St Joseph Missouri and is listed as new member in the Angus records.
Colonial Heights Elementary School finished a week long safety program led by Principal Larry Morton. Winners from each grade received awards for design and drawing of safety posters with the winning room teacher named.
Brownfield Schools announced the end of the first six weeks of the 1964 65 term with report cards. Honor roll notices for Brownfield High and Junior High will be released next week as the second six weeks runs from November 10 to 16 during American Education Week.
Brownfield General Hospital Auxiliary met in the Flame Room at Brownfield General for the regular monthly salad luncheon. New members were welcomed, and special guest Dale Kerley spoke as the purse instructor.
A high school student from Meadow and Betty Kirk describe their summer stay at the Farm Bureau School on Americanism held in Huntsville. The program focused on civic ideals and patriotism, drawing participation from local youths and educators.
In Moravian section of Gnadenhutten village cemetery sits a stone memorial for Joshua Mohican. An assistant to an early Moravian missionary and elder of the first church, he died August 1, 1778.
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